Tag Archives: Windows

I have an old Powerbook G4 hanging around doing nothing, and I thought I’d try to get Ubuntu going on it. The install was fairly straight forward but unfortunately there were too many things that turned out to be a hassle. I worked out some things, but then decided the hassle wasn’t worth it. I’m […]

Tomorrow I start Day 2 of the great 2009 Windows XP install. Argh. 23:41:45 Oh and don’t get me started on lack of drivers for the network card. Like, wtf? How, exactly should I d/l drivers without network drivers? 23:40:40 Re-installing XP on wife’s PC. What a pain. In the time I’ve spent so far, […]

If you have ever heard of Seagate (the hard drive manufacturer), then you surely know that last month they had a flurry of hard drive failures in their popular 7200.11 line of hard drives. After a couple of PR snafus, Seagate finally got their act together and issued firmware and update instructions for the affected […]

BTW, the cool epoch time “celebration” at http://coolepochcountdown.com/ confused the hell out of me when it happened. 23:32:31 Visit http://coolepochcountdown.com/ to relive the moment. 23:31:29 In case you live under a rock, or run Windows, today the 1234567890 second since Jan 1, 1970 was marked. w00t. 23:31:11 Passport RFID fail. $250 gets you passport sniffer. […]

I haven’t even run Vista. Even though I’m a developer and make my living off Windows application development, I am frankly just not an OS tire kicker. I didn’t buy a Mac until Tiger came out, I still run the stable (_sometimes_ the testing) release of Debian and I haven’t tried Ubuntu as a possible […]